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Appendix F - Extracts from the Accounts of John Hampton 1430–2 – Purchases

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

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Purchased in diverse locations in England and France by command of the king for his aforesaid war within the time of the accounts (1430–2):

  • • Three large guns of iron, of which one called Henry, one called Hampton and one called Crown

  • • Sixteen guns of iron called fowlers, with thirty-three moveable chambers, not fixed or stocked

  • • Four guns of bronze called fowlers, with eight moveable chambers, not fixed or stocked

  • • 2,128lbs of iron worked

  • • 6,000lbs of iron not worked

  • • Twenty chaulders of sea coal

  • • Four large carts of iron and wood for moving guns, large guns and other things, each with one pair of wheels called trokels

  • • Four long carts of iron and wood made for use in the country of Picardy

  • • 1,550 gunstones

  • • Fifty chains

  • • Forty staples

  • • Forty pairs of hooks

  • • Forty plates of iron for moving oxen

  • • Eighty collars

  • • Twenty-five double oxbows containing 300 pieces

  • • 100 ‘pykeys’

  • • Fifty axes

  • • 200 shovels

  • • 200 spades

  • • Forty-two ‘scoops’

  • • Twelve ‘crowes’ of iron

  • • One axle beam of iron

  • • Seven weights of lead

  • • 996 hammers of lead

  • • Seven big pieces of lead weighing 3,525lbs

  • • One pair of bellows for smiths

  • • 800 shafts called spear shafts

  • • 710 lance heads

  • • 391 chests for arrows and bows

  • • 1,204lbs of gunpowder

  • • 5,164lbs of saltpetre liquid not dry or pestled in powder

  • • 5,200lbs of sulphur rough not dry in powder

  • • 280lbs of charcoal

  • • One stock to hold saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal

  • • 100 long pavises

  • • Five short pavises

  • • Three cords of hemp called hankers

  • • Eighteen stocks of wood and iron not bound for guns called fowlers

  • • Forty-two empty vessels

  • • Eight hogsheads

  • • Fourteen barrels

  • • Six ‘wassell’ of metal

  • • Three saddles called ‘lymour’ saddles

  • • Three cruppers for ‘lymour’ saddles

  • • Three backs (dosers) for the same

  • • Two collars of rope for cart horses

  • • Four ‘crebis of crunbz’ for great ordnance

  • £2,072 4s. 8½d.

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    Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
    Print publication year: 2019

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